Placide Rukundo

713 total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 423 citations indexed

About

Placide Rukundo is a scholar working on Plant Science, Food Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Placide Rukundo has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 423 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Plant Science, 9 papers in Food Science and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Placide Rukundo's work include Genetics and Plant Breeding (9 papers), Advances in Cucurbitaceae Research (7 papers) and Potato Plant Research (6 papers). Placide Rukundo is often cited by papers focused on Genetics and Plant Breeding (9 papers), Advances in Cucurbitaceae Research (7 papers) and Potato Plant Research (6 papers). Placide Rukundo collaborates with scholars based in Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa. Placide Rukundo's co-authors include Mark Laing, Hussein Shimelis, Daphrose Gahakwa, Damien Hanyurwimfura, Leonce Dusengemungu, J. W. Kimenju, Dora Kilalo, Douglas W. Miano, Shimelis Hussein and Jacob Mashilo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Frontiers in Plant Science and Crop Science.

In The Last Decade

Placide Rukundo

29 papers receiving 406 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Crop Yield Prediction Using Machine Learning Models: Case of Irish Potato and Maize

2023 108 citations Damien Hanyurwimfura, Placide Rukundo et al. Agriculture profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Placide Rukundo Rwanda	11	334	79	47	41	36	35	423
Bunmi Olasanmi Nigeria	11	451 1.4×	96 1.2×	15 0.3×	34 0.8×	56 1.6×	39	528
M. Booyse South Africa	10	221 0.7×	92 1.2×	16 0.3×	20 0.5×	60 1.7×	52	293
Rodrigo Silva Alves Brazil	14	397 1.2×	35 0.4×	32 0.7×	185 4.5×	29 0.8×	63	506
Vikas Khandelwal India	8	241 0.7×	67 0.8×	13 0.3×	61 1.5×	54 1.5×	43	335
Alieu Sartie New Zealand	10	213 0.6×	147 1.9×	8 0.2×	67 1.6×	90 2.5×	19	371
Don LaBonte United States	13	373 1.1×	83 1.1×	30 0.6×	25 0.6×	89 2.5×	25	474
Felipe Lopes da Silva Brazil	14	437 1.3×	39 0.5×	30 0.6×	93 2.3×	19 0.5×	53	504
Roger Malapa Vanuatu	14	274 0.8×	212 2.7×	25 0.5×	61 1.5×	98 2.7×	22	535
J. T. de Farias Neto Brazil	12	334 1.0×	34 0.4×	9 0.2×	35 0.9×	31 0.9×	57	410
Stephen Mwangi Githiri Kenya	13	367 1.1×	23 0.3×	27 0.6×	48 1.2×	87 2.4×	24	436

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Placide Rukundo

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Sousa, Kauê de, R. Manners, Jacob van Etten, et al.. (2025). Integrating environmental, socio-economic, and biological data in a farmer-led potato trial for enhanced varietal assessment in Rwanda. Experimental Agriculture. 61. 1 indexed citations

Tripathi, Jaindra Nath, et al.. (2025). Genetic Improvement of Banana for Resistance to Xanthomonas Wilt in East Africa. Food and Energy Security. 14(1). 1 indexed citations

Mohammed, Wassu, et al.. (2024). Sorghum farmers’ perceptions of climate change, its effects, temperature and precipitation trends, and determinants of adaptation strategies in the central plateau zone of Rwanda. Cogent Food & Agriculture. 10(1). 3 indexed citations

Shakir, Sara, James P. Legg, Placide Rukundo, et al.. (2024). Breeding strategies for mitigating cassava brown streak disease in Africa. Lirias (KU Leuven). 3(1). 0–0.

Hanyurwimfura, Damien, et al.. (2024). SMART-CYPS: an intelligent internet of things and machine learning powered crop yield prediction system for food security. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 7 indexed citations

Hanyurwimfura, Damien, et al.. (2023). Crop Yield Prediction Using Machine Learning Models: Case of Irish Potato and Maize. Agriculture. 13(1). 225–225. 108 indexed citations breakdown →

Rukundo, Placide, et al.. (2023). Performance of tetraploid biofortified potato clones in Rwanda. Crop Science. 64(3). 1284–1293. 2 indexed citations

Rukundo, Placide, et al.. (2021). Effect of vine and fruit pruning on yield attributes of two watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) cultivars. Advances in Horticultural Science. 35(3). 269–275. 3 indexed citations

Rukundo, Placide, Hussein Shimelis, Mark Laing, & Jacob Mashilo. (2020). Genotype-by-environment interaction for dual-purpose traits in sweetpotato. Journal of Crop Improvement. 34(6). 800–823. 6 indexed citations

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Kilalo, Dora, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of hot pepper (Capsicum spp.) genotypes for resistance to viruses and aphids in Rwanda. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Kilalo, Dora, et al.. (2020). Farmers' knowledge and perceptions of virus diseases affecting hot pepper and their management in Rwanda. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1–1. 3 indexed citations

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Shimelis, Hussein, et al.. (2019). Gene action and heritability of yield components of dual-purpose sweetpotato clones. Euphytica. 215(7). 8 indexed citations

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Alajo, Agnes, Placide Rukundo, Paul Gibson, et al.. (2019). Adaptability of a U.S. purple-fleshed sweetpotato breeding population in Uganda. Australian Journal of Crop Science. 13(1). 17–25. 5 indexed citations

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Rukundo, Placide, et al.. (2019). Yield and yield components of CIP advanced potato clones under Rwandan agro-ecologies. Journal of Applied Biosciences. 136(1). 13909–13909. 4 indexed citations

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Rukundo, Placide, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of Performance of Introduced Yam Bean (Pachyrhizus spp.) in Three Agro-Ecological Zones of Rwanda. Tropical Plant Biology. 10(2-3). 97–109. 6 indexed citations

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Rukundo, Placide, Hussein Shimelis, Mark Laing, & Daphrose Gahakwa. (2017). Combining Ability, Maternal Effects, and Heritability of Drought Tolerance, Yield and Yield Components in Sweetpotato. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7. 1981–1981. 47 indexed citations

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Rukundo, Placide, Hussein Shimelis, Mark Laing, & Daphrose Gahakwa. (2016). Application of principal component analysis to yield and yield related traits to identify sweet potato breeding parents 01. Tropical Agriculture. 92(1). 23 indexed citations

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Rukundo, Placide, Hussein Shimelis, Mark Laing, & Daphrose Gahakwa. (2016). Greenhouse and in vitro screening of sweetpotato genotypes for drought tolerance. Research on Crops. 17(3). 568–568.

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Edema, Richard, et al.. (2015). Combining ability for resistance to rice yellow mottle virus disease in interspecific and intraspecific rice Genotypes. 2 indexed citations

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Rukundo, Placide, Hussein Shimelis, Mark Laing, & Daphrose Gahakwa. (2013). Storage root formation, dry matter synthesis, accumulation and genetics in sweetpotato. Australian Journal of Crop Science. 7(13). 2054–2061. 43 indexed citations

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